I present
here a useful tip from the '50s, and that can be still valuable
today.
If you've been out of fuel, and anyone stops willing to help but
not having the necessary stuff, you could get in this way.
Disassemble a wheel cover, clean it thoroughly, and use as a
pan to collect the fuel that can be extracted by
removing the inlet tubeinto the pump.
The wheel cover can contain exactly one and a half
liter, and the fuel can be transferred into the tank without
pouring it through the two holes on its margins.

The Standard is the poor brother of the Beetle that we all know, the Export model.Its history and evolution had developed independently and discreetly, leaving little trace in the literature in the past.Also the literature of today offers very few information on it, and when it does is often superficial, incomplete, if not simply wrong.

But Standard is not only the poor variant of the beetle, it is also an attitude, a way of seeing things, paying attention to everything, by its nature, goes unnoticed because it is not trendy, not glamor, and is not cause of admiration, emulation, desire.